Landslides are a major problem along roads in high mountain areas. This is illustrated using an example from rural Nepal, in which the construction of a rural road has induced multiple landslides, threatening the local communities.

A review of landslide losses in Nepal in 2012 in comparison with the last 30 years. Losses were below the recent average, probably because the monsoon was weak.

Some images of landslides in Nepal triggered by the September 2011 Mw=6.9 Sikkim earthquake

Details about my forthcoming talk to the Hong Kong Royal Geographical Society on 3rd April 2012

An EERI report is now available on the Sikkim earthquake. Landslides caused immense damage, but are absent from the leassons learnt!

A new Geological Survey of India report describes some of the landslides triggered by the September 2011 Sikkim earthquake in India and Nepal

Updates on the earthquake in the Himalayas, the overtopping of landslide dams in Japan resulting from typhoon Roke, and landslides in Rwanda and Guatemala.

Latest information on the earthquake in the Himalayas, plus an earthquake in Guatemala and landslides in China and Italy

A review of landslides in Nepal, highlighting trends in time, and outlining why this issue needs to be addressed. The UK government’s abnnouncement today that their aid funding for Nepal for the next five years will highlight disaster risk reduction, including reducing landslide losses, is very welcome.

The Chinese news agencies are reporting a huge ice – rock avalanche in Akto County, Xinjiang, China. The reported volume is half a cubic kilometre!